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Super Bowl LX will be played between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots, but all eyes will be on the artists who have spoken out against the Trump administration.
Bad Bunny, Green Day and Brandi Carlile are all set to perform in Santa Clara, California, either before the game begins or during halftime. The half-time boss, Bad Bunny, has been very outspoken about how the Trump administration has used US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to root out illegal immigrants.
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Bad Bunny speaks onstage at the Super Bowl LX Pregame & Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show Press Conference at Moscone Center West on February 5, 2026 in San Francisco, California. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
The Puerto Rican music artist had been outspoken last year when federal agents operated in Los Angeles. He revealed in September that he was postponing US tour dates because of it.
In an interview with iD, the artist, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, confirmed that one of the main reasons for the absence of American dates on his “Debi Tirar Mas Fotos World Tour” was that there was no risk that his fans could be picked up by ICE agents.
“But there was the question of f—ing ICE being outside [my concert]. And that’s something we talked about and were very concerned about,” he told the paper, expressing concern over President Donald Trump’s second-term deportation agenda.
The artist has previously been open about ICE. While visiting Puerto Rico in June, Ocasio recorded and posted a video of what he described as local ICE raids on social media.
“Look, those mother—–s are in these cars, RAV-4s. They’re here in Pontezuela,” he said in Spanish, referring to ICE working on Avenida Pontezuela in Carolina, a city east of Puerto Rico’s capital, San Juan.
“Sons of b—— instead of leaving the people alone and work there,” he added.
Bad Bunny accepts the award for best música urbana album for “Un Verano Sin Ti”. (Robert Hanashiro/USA TODAY NETWORK)
More backlash followed in October when he was named the Super Bowl LX halftime show performer. He said that Americans would have four months to learn English if they would move and groove to his songs.
Bad Bunny earned a Grammy Award for Album of the Year and continued to be outspoken about ICE.
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“ICE out,” he said. “We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens — we’re human and we’re Americans.”
He did not mention any of the controversies that have clouded him ahead of Super Bowl LX during his interview with Apple.
Green Day
Green Day band member Billie Joe Armstrong, left, performs with bassist Mike Dirnt in front of thousands of fans at Comerica Park in Detroit on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. (David Rodriguez Munoz/USA TODAY NETWORK)
Green Day will be part of an on-field performance just before the coin toss as the NFL honors past Super Bowl MVPs ahead of the 60th game in its history. The NFL said Green Day will “herald Super Bowl MVPs onto the field with a dynamic performance that celebrates the legacy and evolution of the championship game.”
Green Day has been notoriously outspoken against President Donald Trump since the start of his first term. The gang had only turned up his administration since he returned to office in January 2025.
The punk rock band took a swipe at Vice President JD Vance last March. While playing “Jesus of Suburbia” in Melbourne, Australia at the time, the band changed the words to suggest that Vance was “retarded”.
“Am I retarded or just JD Vance?” lead singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong sang instead of the original lyrics, “Am I retarded or just overjoyed?”
After the overturning of Roe V. Wade in 2022, Armstrong told an audience during a London concert that he would renounce his American citizenship and move there.
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“F— America, I’m about to renounce my citizenship,” Armstrong said. “I’m coming here.”
“There’s just too much stupid in the world to go back to that lame excuse for a country,” Armstrong added. “Oh, I’m not kidding. You’re going to get a lot from me in the coming days.”
He also called the Supreme Court justices “pricks” and said, “f— the Supreme Court of the United States.”
During a performance at “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” last year, the band changed the lyrics to their 2004 hit “American Idiot,” with Armstrong singing, “I’m not a part of a MAGA agenda,” instead of the original, “I’m not a part of the redneck agenda.”
The band has also been outspoken about ICE. The band smashed the bureau at a concert last month.
“We stand up for our brothers and sisters in Minnesota,” Armstrong said, later taking a swipe at White House adviser Stephen Miller.
Brandi Carlile
“America the Beautiful” singer Brandi Carlile during the Super Bowl LX halftime show press conference at the Moscone Center on February 5, 2026. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)
Brandi Carlile will be among the performers to sing before the Super Bowl. She has been tapped to perform “America the Beautiful,” while Coco Jones will sing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” otherwise known as the black national anthem, and Charlie Puth will perform “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Carlile began speaking out against Trump after he won the 2016 election. She told KUOW Radio in December 2016 that she was “pissed off” by Trump’s voters and “concerned” about why they voted for Trump.
Since then, Carlile has made his disdain for Trump clear. She wrote a song called “Church & State” which took aim at the administration. Carlile joined Elton John to help offset cuts to HIV/AIDS funding made by the White House in the early days of Trump’s second term.
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Carlile joined Don Lemon on the Grammys red carpet after he was arrested for his alleged involvement in a protest in Minnesota where activists stormed a church in January.
Although she has yet to speak out against Trump ahead of the Super Bowl, she said in an interview with Apple Music that she hoped those listening to her performance on Sunday will interpret “America the Beautiful” as a prayer rather than a song.
